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J. J. WISDA. GAR COUPLING.

No. 462,832. Patented Nov. 10,1891.

WZ'f/Z e 6 Ina/@2702" W21? 2 AW) UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH J. \VISDA, OF DEFIANOE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHNXVISDA, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,832, dated November10, 1891.

Application filed June 1, 1891. $erial No. 394,666- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH J. WISDA, a citizen of the United States,residing at Defiance, in the county of Defiance and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Couplers; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to an improvement in devices for couplingcars; and it has for its object to provide a cheap and efficient meansfor automatically coupling.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for guiding andsustaining the coupling-link so as to avoid the objectionable necessityof going between cars to hold the link elevated while in the act ofcoupling; and a further object of the invention is to adapt a lever toserve the twofold function of holding a link in an elevated position andthe coupling-pin in such position that when the cars are broughttogether the pin will be allowed to fall into the slot of the link andalso the eye of the drawhead and thereby effeet an automatic and securecoupling.

The invention will be fully understood from the following descriptionand claim when taken in connection with annexed drawing, in which Thefigure is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of a portion of adraw-head, showing my improvements applied a1? d also showing a portionof a box-car.

Referring by letter to said drawing, A indicates a draw-head, which ismainly of the ordinary construction. This draw-head has an elevatedportion a on its upper side, and is perforated at Z) to receive atransverse pivot-pin c for an angular lever, as will be presentlyexplained. The draw-head has the usual mouth (I, and is slottedlongitudinally and vertically, as shown at e, for a purpose which willbe presently explained.

B indicates a lever. This lever is of a form substantially as shown,having a shoulder or rest f, designed to support the coupling-pin G, andbeneath this rest or shoulder is a notch g, designed to receive one endof a coupling-link when it is desirable to hold the opposite end of thelink in an elevated posi' tion, thereby rendering it unnecessary to gobetween the cars in coupling for the purpose of raising the link. Thislever has its vertical branch 7L pivoted at a short distance from itsupper end and above the mouth of the drawhead in the slot e by means ofthe transverse pin 0. The lower depending branch of said lever, whichextends rearward] y at an angle to the vertical branch, as shown at i,should either be weighted or of a suflicient length to normally keep thenotched portion advanced in the slot of the drawhead, as shown in fulllines 011 the drawing, the dotted lines representing the position of thelever when a couplinglink has been inserted in the draw-head and the pinallowed to fall from the shoulder or restf and into the slot of the linkand into the eye of the head.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing,

the operation of my invention will be obvi ous. It will be seen thatwhen it is desirable to couple a car to one carrying a link it is simplynecessary to Withdraw the couplingpin, when the weighted branch of thelever B will advance the shoulder or rest so as to carry it across theeye in the draw-head. The pin may then be placed in the eye and upon therest of the lever, when by bringing the coupling-link into the draw-headit will displace the pin from the rest and allow it to fall into theslot of the link, thereby effectinga coupling. hen a link is secured inone draw-head and it is desired to couple to another car, it is simplynecessary to elevate the outer end of the link until the inner end hasbeen brought into the notch g of the lever, when the link will remain insuch ele vated position, and the attendant maycome from between the carswhile coupling.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

In a car-coupler, the combination, with a draw-head slotted as describedand a coup ling-pin, of the lever constructed as shown, having thevertical branch provided with the shoulder or rest on its forward edgeand the notch in its forward edge below the ShOliL 5 der or rest andalso having the lower rearl weirdly-extended Weighted branch,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH J. WISDA.

Vitnesses:

DEY AYERS, R. H. GLEAsoN.

